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Higginson George, carpenter North Warwickshire Water Co. (Wm. Smith William Harvey M.B.Durh.. Hodgekins William, chimney sweeper Russell, collector) M.R.C.S.En.g. surgeon, & medical Bunt Benjamin, blacksmith Parker James Henry, miller (water), officer & public vaccinator. Meri­ Hunt William Collis, farmer Meriden mill den district &:; medical officer to Jones Frank Benjamin, butcher Pearman Luke, farmer, Church farm the workhCoventry and s! west from served as a landmark, but this was partly taken down Lutterworth, in the South-Eastern division of the county, about 1630, in order to save the expense of repairing it: Kirby division of Knightlow hundred, Rugby petty ses- the remainder, together with other portions of the sional division, Lutterworth union and county court dis. church, was blown down on the 25th December, 1701, trict, rural deanrry of Monks Kirby, archdeaconry of by a severe hurricane, in which the fleet of Sir Cloudes­

Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The church of St. 1 ley Shovel was also destroyed: an inscription on the Edith, dating from about xsoo, is a building of red and roof of one of the aisles partially records this calamity